Details

Case

Punjab Skills Development Fund (PSDF): Consultant Selection Problem (A&B)

Muhammad Adeel Zaffar

INDUSTRY : Training Services

AREA : Production & Operation Management

ORGANIZATION : Punjab Skills Development Fund

LENGTH : 5

LUMS No : 03-857-2015-1

PUBLICATION YEAR : 2015

KEYWORDS:

Skills Development, Apparel Industry, Garments, Training Service Provider

DESCRIPTION:

It is September 2013. Mr Ali Akbar Bosan (Chief Operating Officer of PSDF) and his technical team are in the process of preparing the EOI for the soon to be launched Skills for Garments Scheme. A Skills Needs Assessment Workshop for the garment sector has recently been conducted. As expected, there is a huge demand from the workshop's participants to design trainings for market-driven skills which address human capital deficiencies in the apparel industry. Ten districts have been identified for training 30,000 individuals. Mr Bosan knows that the selection of the right training service providers (TSPs) would ensure the sustained economic viability of the trainees and address the scarcity of skilled labour for the garments sector in Punjab.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

This case was written for use in the ASP-LUMS Procurement Management workshops. The workshops were conducted for different tiers of professionals working within the public and CSO/NGO sectors. The primary decision in the case is for PSDF to decide what criterion to use for consultant selection in one of its procurements. The Chief Operating Officer at PSDF has to choose from three types of criteria commonly discussed in the context of selection of consultants, i.e., Least Cost Based Selection (LCBS), Quality Based Selection (QBS) and Quality and Cost Based Selection (QCBS).

SUBJECTS COVERED:

Production, Management, Operations